On August 8th, 2014, 30-year-old Gable Tostee pleaded not guilty to the murder of 26-year-old Warriena Wright, who had fallen to her death from the 14th floor balcony of his Surfers Paradise apartment in the Avalon building that had a striking view of the Gold Coast and Nerang River.

As children, we learned of the One Thousand and One Nightsstories that Scheherazade would tell the King in an attempt to save her life. By captivating him with her delightful narratives of Sinbad, Ali Baba and Aladdin, he would allow her to live. If she failed to enchant him, she would die.